Day Five: Retirement!

So I got bored of this character, and, after speaking with a M&B colleague, decided to make the crappiest starting character I possibly could, just for a challenge. Ghazi retired to, apparently, a life of crime, robbing hobos and women of copper pieces to make ends meet. That's sad, he was cool. Anyhow, new character creation incoming! Name: Bazhyn Starting area: Vaegir lands (essentially poland) Why? Cause... snow is neat and... polish chicks can be hot too, especially when named Magda.

Anyhow, I'm sure this'll be fantastically difficult, as I put very few points into raising his various combat skills, which are NECESSARY for early game. Anyhow, does he look polish enough? (picture posted above). I decided to NOT help out the merchant this time, his brother can get raped by a gaggle of silverbacked gorillas for all I care, and instead went off riding around to towns, collecting crappy polish recruits for my army of retards. I'm anticipating being pwnt by the crappiest of the marauding bandits - Looters, so my army must be massive to fight them. MASSIVE. MAH-hasiv. Hmm maybe I should have called my guy Mahhasive. Next time. I just realized that I'm dirt poor and can't afford a massive army. Sigh. Maybe I should go do that stupid merchant's quest for some starting cash... naw I don't care enough. Plus a polish brother is worth even less to me than an arabic one was... and you all know how I felt about him. Fuckin duck crossbreed trash... Anyhow I actually ran a few errands for some lords (Boyar), including murdering some dude and delivering some mail to some other Boyar at SLEZKH CASTLE (yes, slezkh). The dude I killed was some murderer again, I love how they chase you when you're on a horse and they KNOW they won't be able to catch you... fail.

Anyhow, I've decided that, because my dude is polish and sucks, I need to shoot people with a crossbow from afar. I've adopted a polish style of fighting - shoot, run away and reload, shoot again. Give them ground. just... give it to them. They like it. So my first actual battle, all my men got slaughtered. I was taken prisoner. I killed a few with my crossbow, though, which is neat. Got a few headshots BOOMHEADSHOT! I then got into an altercation with some sea raiders (which are very well equipped. On the plus side, i managed to kill most of them (which was no mean feat), but they still beat me up and took me prisoner (I haven't turned down the difficulty rating, either, so I'm doing this all with a crappy guy on top of the game being super hard). They DID steal my crossbow, though, so I can't be as polish as I once was q.q

So I've realized that, while using axes makes for a slower attack rate, they're effin strong. They also cut through shields really quickly, so I've started using a fighting axes instead of a sword. I knew this before, I just liked the rate of attack a sword provided, but, seeing as I can't find a good one, I've picked up this axe. I tried to saved a village from bandits, but, of course, the LAST bandit left managed to kill me, and the farmers fled, so I failed. FAIL. I don't like failing, even though Bazhyn is polish-like.

Anyhow, I rode around some more, found some companions, actually KILLED a few sea raiders, and managed to make some money. Nothing super special happened, Nothing new to report. I SHALL WRITE MORE LATER!

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